- Both are licensed Vermont adult-use retailers on the same pedestrian street. Garcia's Cannabis Collective is at 97 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401; Float On is at 136½ Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401.
- They sit about 0.1 miles apart on the Church Street Marketplace — a couple of blocks up the same car-free block, an easy comparison on foot.
- Float On is open seven days a week, and open late — 'til midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. You can build an order on its live menu and pick it up under your name, or walk in.
- This is a neighborhood comparison, not a ranking. Everything is 21+, and public consumption isn't permitted anywhere in Vermont — whatever you buy is for private use only.
If you're weighing Garcia's Cannabis Collective against Float On, the useful thing to know first is that they're two doors on the same street. Both are licensed Vermont adult-use retailers on the Church Street Marketplace in downtown Burlington, roughly a couple of blocks apart. This is a straight, factual side-by-side — addresses, how to reach each one, what's confirmed about hours, and how ordering works — not a ranking of one over the other.
Where is each shop?
Both addresses are on the Church Street Marketplace, the four-block, brick-paved pedestrian stretch through the middle of downtown Burlington. The whole block is car-free, so with either shop you'll park nearby and walk in.
- Garcia's Cannabis Collective — 97 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401, toward the lower (College Street) end of the Marketplace. It's a licensed adult-use dispensary that grew out of Garcia's, a long-running Church Street storefront, which added its cannabis dispensary in 2024. Phone: (802) 658-5737.
- Float On — 136½ Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401, a bit further up the same pedestrian block, at street level. A licensed Vermont adult-use retailer with a Vermont-craft focus.
How do you get to either door?
Because both are on the same pedestrian marketplace, the directions are effectively identical — pick your end of the block:
- On foot: From the Burlington waterfront it's a gentle uphill walk of a few blocks east; from the University of Vermont campus it's a walk downhill toward the lake. The Marketplace itself is flat and fully pedestrian.
- Parking: There's metered street parking on the cross streets, plus the Marketplace and College Street parking garages a short stroll away. Bike parking is available around the Marketplace.
- Transit: Green Mountain Transit (GMT) buses serve downtown Burlington with stops near the Marketplace, so you can arrive without a car.
If you want to see both, it's genuinely a one-trip errand: aim for the 97 Church end near College Street, and 136½ is a short walk up the same block.
What are the hours?
Hours are the one thing worth checking fresh, because they shift seasonally at any shop. Here's what's confirmed versus what to verify:
- Float On: open seven days a week, and open late — 'til midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — which is handy if you're already out downtown in the evening.
- Garcia's Cannabis Collective: check its own website or listings for that day's exact opening and closing times before you go, since posted hours can change.
Can you order ahead, or do you just walk in?
At Float On you can do either. You can build an order on the live menu and pick it up under your name, which is the quicker route if you already know roughly what you want, or you can simply walk in and browse the shelf and ask a budtender. Either way, bring a valid 21+ photo ID — you'll show it at the door.
Both shops carry the standard licensed categories you'd expect — flower, pre-rolls, vapes, concentrates, edibles, and more — with everything moving through Vermont's regulated, lab-tested supply chain. For exactly what's on the shelf at any given moment, each store's live menu is the place to look. New to any of it? Our plain-English guides walk through the basics before you head downtown.
What's the same at both, because it's Vermont law?
A handful of rules apply identically at every licensed adult-use shop on the Marketplace, so they don't separate one store from the other:
- It's 21+. Bring a valid government-issued photo ID. No medical card is needed for adult-use.
- No public consumption. Vermont doesn't permit using cannabis in public — not on Church Street, the waterfront, in a parked car, or anywhere public. It's for private use only.
- It stays in Vermont. Cannabis bought here can't legally cross state lines, even into a neighboring state where it's also legal.
- Tax is built into shelf pricing. Vermont applies a 14% cannabis excise tax plus the 6% sales tax; at a licensed shop that's already reflected in what you pay.
Shopping either licensed store means what's on the label went through Vermont's testing and tracking. The practical difference between them isn't the rules — it's which end of the block you walk to, and small things like Float On's late Friday and Saturday hours and its order-ahead live menu.
So which should you pick?
Honestly, they're close enough that the deciding factor is usually logistics, not any verdict this page could hand you. If you're near the College Street end, 97 Church is right there. If you're heading up the Marketplace, want to shop late on a Friday or Saturday, or would rather line up a pickup on a live menu ahead of time, Float On fits that. Both are licensed; the rest is preference and timing. If it's your first visit to any of them, what to expect your first time covers a dispensary trip start to finish.